When running Web applications from within Visual Studio, there have generally been two primary hosts available while developing: a local “development” Web server, or a full version of Internet Information Services (IIS). There has also been a “custom server” option, where a path to a server executable could be entered; however, this was not a widely used option given that most Web applications were built for the ASP.NET pipeline running in some flavor of IIS anyway. With Visual Studio 2013, ASP.NET will include a new way to compose and host Web applications. In this new model, ASP.NET will shift from a monolithic framework to a set of smaller components put together into a pipeline and hosted in any number of user-selected hosting options. Modularity...(read more) ...
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